Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: Headquarters & Headquarters Troop, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 57M
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Air Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Start of tour: 1-Aug-1967
Note: UH-1D, Tail # 66-00977, Crew Chief
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 25-Mar-1947
Hometown: New York, New York
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Incident date: 21-Mar-1968
Date of casualty: 21-Mar-1968
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Non-Hostile – Died While Missing. Helicopter Crash — Crew (MC). Aircraft loss, crash not at sea.
Daniel F. Thomas died as the result of burns received while door gunner of a military aircraft which crashed. / (Individual transported to 93rd Evacuation Hospital, Long Binh.)
Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
COL Leonard Donald Holder
SP4 Daniel F. Thomas
Location of fatality: Bien Hoa, South Vietnam, YT 054 118*
Place of interment: Saint John Cemetery, Middle Village, New York, USA
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